Hi Napoleon. Those are very nice hats.I watched a guy make one out of green walnut one day and he used a straight boring bar tool to cut off a ring from the top and then used it to cut a cone out of the middle of the inside to remove a mass of material in one shot. Do you use something like that?

He also used a piece of solder around his head to get the correct size for the inside and cut a ring that shape to put the hat on and slowly clamp it while it dried to take his head shape

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I turned it with ordinary irons. I made a cut-off with a long iron in the begining so i got a piece i can use for a mirrorframe. I put the hat i a kind of frame were i slowly pressed it until it fits my head. I measure my head with a big caliper.